Car-stake.



PATENTBD JULY 2; 1907.

D. B. FLORY.'

GAR STARE. APPLICATION FILED 00T. 80., 1905,.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

DANIEL E. FLORY, OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON.

GAR-STARE.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL E. FLORY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Tacoma, in the county of Pierce and State ofWashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Stakes, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to railway appliances, and especially to thestakes used on flat cars, and has for its objects to produce a stakewhich is readily removable without injuring the person operating it andwhich is vertically adjustable to any desired height, and to which maybe fastened the side boards which will convert the fiat car into agondola car. I attain these objects by the devices illustrated in theaccompanying drawing in which, i

Figure l is a side view of the end portion of a at car equipped with mystakes. Fig. 2 is a partial view of the end of the car showing my stakein use when logs are loaded on the car. Fig. 3 is an enlarged verticalcross-section of my device, and Fig. 4 is a horizontal cross-sectionthereof.

Similar numerals of reference refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

In the drawings I have illustrated the fiat car with a floor l supportedby means of longitudinal sills 2 and end sills -3. Adjacent to the outersides of the outer sills 2 are secured the auxiliary sills 4 The stakepockets are secured to the car at about the usual position and consistof castings formed as shown in Fig. 4 with avertical pocket 5 open attop and bottom, and supported from the main sills 2 by the webs 6 andlegs 7 the webs 6 being separated by a short space in which thehereinafter described gear is mounted. The pockets are secured to thesills 2 by means of the usual U-shaped bolts 8 which engage in suitablegrooves formed on theoutside of the pocket 5. The pocket 5 is formedwith a rectangular `cross-section in which the rectangular stake 9loosely fits. This stake 9 is formed of metal and is hollow and has therack 10 formed' in the side adjacent to the car. This rack l0 ismade byforming in the side of the stake "9 a vertical series of holes, asillustrated in Fig. 3, into Which the teeth of the gear ll mesh. Therack l0 extends the entire length of the stake 9 The under surface ofthe auxiliary Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 30, 1905. Serial No. 285,014.

Patented July 2, 1907.

sill 4 is grooved to receive the longitudinal operating shaft l2 whichpasses from end to end of the car on which are mounted the abovementioned gear wheels ll between the webs "6 of each stake pocket. Onthe sill 3 at one end of the car is mounted a dog I3 which engages theratchet wheel 14 mounted on the shaft l2. The hand Wheel l5 is securedto the end of the shaft l2 in Ysuch position that the shaft may bereadily turned from the end of the car. The dog 13 and ratchet 14 are soarranged as to keep the shaft l2 from rotating in the direction whichwould lower the stakes 9 It will readily be seen that with my device Iam able to so adjust the height of the stakes above the Hoor of the caras the circumstances of the load on the car require, and I can,therefore, load a greater number of logs on the flat car than can bedone with the usual hand-made stakes of uniform height. One of the greatdangers in the transfer of logs is found in the fact that the stakes, asusually applied, have to he almost sawed through by a man standingbeside the car before the car arrives at the log dump, thus placing thelife of the man in jeopardy since the logs may break loose before he hashad time to get away; and also placing the train in danger, as the logsmay fall off from the car while being transferred from the point wherethe stakes have been sawed to the log dump. Besides this, my device canbe operated much faster than all the stakes on the car can be sawed.

Having, therefore, described my invention, what I blaim is:

1. In a car stake, the combination of a car body, a series of stakepockets secured thereto, vertically hollow car stakes within saidpockets and having a vertical series of holes through the inner sidethereof to form a rack, a shaft extending longitudinally along ysaidcar, gear wheels mounted on said shaft and engaging said holes, and aratchet dog and wheel adapted to hold said shaft from turning.

2. A car stake formed of a hollow piece of metal and having a verticalseries of holes formed in one side thereof to form a rack.`

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

DANIEL E. FLORY.

Witnesses:

M. I-I. Comer, M. A. VAN HOUSE.

